Remember on Friday when I signed off of the blog by saying that I was looking forward to a productive weekend? Well, not so much. Here is a formula that is as much a fact as Einstein’s Theory of Relativity: 3 Kids + Halloween Weekend = No personal productivity Every time I thought I would …
Category: Writing Diary
Writing Diary: Writing the First Act
I’ve been so busy writing the script that I’ve neglected the blog. It’s time to rectify that situation. Yes, I am actually writing script pages. The index card outline was completed on Sunday, and I did some character notes on Monday, and then started writing script pages on Tuesday. As I mentioned in the blog …
Writing Diary: Making Progress
I finished my notecards yesterday. I have 40 note cards, each representing a scene. A bunch of those cards represent scenes that were in the 1st draft, but most of them represent new work. Once I finished the note cards yesterday afernoon, I read the story through in its outline form, and I am cautiously …
Writing Diary: Notecards
True to my word from yesterday, I started outlining the story on note cards today. I was up and at it at about 5:30 am and worked on it until about 7:15 when it was time to start rousing the kids for school, and getting ready for my day job. Even so, I was able …
Writing Diary: The Re-Write begins
I wrote coverage on a script a couple of months ago. Without going into too much detail, it was an early draft of a coming of age story about a troubled teen who needs to turn it around in school in order to graduate, and through a series of events befriends an old man who teaches him …